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New comment by frob in "US Military says 3 service members have been killed"

frob — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:20:35 +0000

Under their military rules, they have an obligation to disregard illegal orders. This war was not declared by congress. It is illegal and unconstitutional. They are chosing to do this and are thus complicit.

New comment by frob in "Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions"

frob — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:13:21 +0000

I spent days and days inside the STAR control room in grad school, often during the 12:30am-7:30am graveyard shift. We needed to run 24/7 for efficiency reasons during the experimental season. Getting superconductors down to temp is costly, so once you get it there, it is go time all the time.

You had to stay on top of all the detectors and triggers, since every minute of beam time cost around $1k. You often sat around doing little, probably working on other research, and then would need to drop everything to reboot a detector so we could get back to collecting data.

RHIC is dead. Long live eRHIC.

New comment by frob in "FCC Republicans force prisoners and families to pay more for phone calls"

frob — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:54:50 +0000

Want to work for a software company actively working to help our fellow citizens instead of harm them? Want to work directly with state governments to get people home sooner?

Recidiviz is hiring.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/recidiviz

Teen Swarmed by Cops After AI Metal Detector Flags His Doritos Bag as a Gun

frob — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:15:55 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/teen-swarmed-by-cops-after-ai-metal-detector-flags-his-doritos-bag-as-a-gun-2000676491

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694904

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

The Washington Post Fired Me – But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced

frob — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:13:09 +0000

Article URL: https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washington-post-fired-me-but

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250638

Points: 38

# Comments: 29

New comment by frob in "Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part"

frob — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:27:16 +0000

Isreal has slaughtered over 60 thousand Palistinians. Israel is purposefully starving the rest. Israel uses desperate people searching for food as target practice as testified to by contractors working along side them.

But, apparently Israel holds no accountability or agency for this rampant slaughter.

The White House Is Going to Put Government Statistics on the Blockchain

frob — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:41:05 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/the-white-house-is-going-to-put-government-statistics-on-the-blockchain-yeah-we-dont-know-why-either-2000648428

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45039540

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by frob in "NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant"

frob — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:05:45 +0000

Thw law is very obviously being abused here by Trump and his administration to punish unfavored speech and unfavored groups. They dont care about equal protection one bit. They want to punish academics and universities so that Trump et al can controll their speech.

New comment by frob in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

frob — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:16:08 +0000

"Attack" is when your arms get in the way of their baton swinging at your face.

New comment by frob in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

frob — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:54:10 +0000

If you're not on multiple naughty lists by the end of this administration, you're doing something wrong.

New comment by frob in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

frob — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:42:46 +0000

Authoritarian states often function via selective enforcement of laws. We see that here. They will use any angle, any technicality to remove someone. Lived here for almost 50 years and are a productive member of your community but you're on a stayed order of release pending you check in regularly and you do so? Sorry, we changed our minds and are deporting you because legally we can. Please come with us in the unmarked car. [0]

Tried to kill police officers while trying to overturn an election on behalf of the dear leader? We'll pardon you and give you a job on a task force about weaponization of government. [1]

The law will be applied to the harshest extent to those Trump and his ilk see as enemies and will be warped in favor of his current friends.

Or, as a Preuvian facist president put it: "For my friends, anything; for my enemies, the law!"

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/ice-iran-don... [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/02/january-6-ri...

New comment by frob in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"

frob — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 15:31:31 +0000

I encourage you to read the quotes from Israeli political and social leaders in this piece: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/israel...

> “The Gaza Strip should be flattened, and for all of them there is but one sentence, and that is death,” Yitzhak Kroizer, a member of national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s far-right Otzma Yehudit party, said in a radio interview.

Yitzhak is a current sitting member of the Knesset.

New comment by frob in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

frob — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:24:53 +0000

Such as the US secretary of "defense", Pete Hegseth, who has the Latin phrase for "god wills it" tattooed on his bicep. A phrase that is also the motto of the first crusade.

New comment by frob in "NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions"

frob — Fri, 09 May 2025 13:45:17 +0000

The NSF funded my graduate research. It feels like someone is going through my past and burning all of the ladders that helped me grow and succeed.

New comment by frob in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

frob — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:06:21 +0000

Hi Tom.

You're burning your credibility here fast as the new moderator. dang derived his respect as an admin from not getting into fights in the threads. It additonaly tarnishes your credibility as you're doing this in defense of your employer. You look like a rage-poster who has the same response copied and ready to go from thread to thread.

Please take a moment to step back and examine if this is the image you want to be projecting as the official representative of YC and HN.

New comment by frob in "Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data"

frob — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:47:37 +0000

It's currently showing up as flagged as a dupe and isn't anywhere on the first 3 pages.

New comment by frob in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]"

frob — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:04:32 +0000

What you are saying is the fantastical kool-aid Fox News and alt-right media spin to you.

In the meantime, Trump is actually deporting people without due process to inhumane torture camps run by a dictator while openly bragging about it and defying court orders.

These two things are not the same.

New comment by frob in "Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta"

frob — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:27:18 +0000

I was there during the onavo scandal. It was straight up spyware. They would regularly show graphs of snapchat usage vs messenger vs whatsapp and the snapchat data was explicitly attributed to onovo logs.

New comment by frob in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

frob — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:40:25 +0000

The public cruelty is the point. Make people suffer horrendously outsized consequences for the most minor of innocent infractions and it quickly sends a message that you're not welcome here.

New comment by frob in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

frob — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:31:23 +0000

Do not come here.

First, do it for your own safety. A wrong form or the wrong answer to a verbal question after 18 hours of travel could land you in weeks of brutal detention.

Second, do it to help the cause. We here in America need to suffer the consequences of our actions. We need to see conferences canceled. We need to see imports stopped. We need to see people refusing to bring their knowledge and expertise here.

It is going to be a long, dark four years for the globe. It's going to take all of us working from within and without to have any hope of dismantling this evil empire.